Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church

Location:

Doublehead Gap Road

Gilmer County, Georgia

N 34° 41.458   W084° 15.436

Find A Grave Cemetery Number: 

Date of Visit: December 2, 2021

Jackson Baliles

Pvt Co. L  3 Tenn Cav

Civil War

1821        1874

Macedonia Baptist Church Cemetery

Location:

Macedonia Road

Gilmer County, Georgia

N 34° 40.613   W084° 19.648

Find A Grave # 35120 

Date of Visit: December 2, 2021

Pvt

Franklin Benson Walker

Co C

39 Regt

Ga Inf

CSA

Oct 7 1841

Mar 11 1890

F.M. Mulinax

Nov 9 1842

May 19 1891

Inft Co H 5 Tenn Reg

Millis Killian McClure

Pvt Co D 6 Georgia Cav

Confederate States Army

Dec 20 1833   Apr 3 1912

Isaac Webster Rackley

1844-1918

Confederate Soldier Civil War

Wounded in Battle of 

Franklin Tenn Nov 1864

Issac enlisted in Company C of the 8th Georgia Battalion. In the battle of Franklin he was wounded in his left shoulder and captured by Union forces. On December 26 he was admitted to Number 1, USA General Hospital in Nashville. As a prisoner of war he would be sent to Camp Chase, Ohio and then to Point Lookout, Maryland. On June 5, 1865 he signed the Oath of Allegiance. 

Issac applied for a pension because of the disability caused by the gunshot wound. In the application it is said that the ball entered his left shoulder at the junction of his collar bone and breast bone, passing through the left shoulder coming out the backside of his left arm, passing thorough the should joint. Bones was said to have be shattered. The joint was rendered useless.  

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Isaac Rackly, 8th Georgia Infantry Battalion, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, Deceber 10, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Ancestry.com. Georgia, U.S., Confederate Pension Applications, 1879-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.

Original data:Confederate Pension Applications, Georgia Confederate Pension Office, RG 58-1-1, Georgia Archives.

Cartecay Methodist Church

Location:

Georgia Highway 53

Gilmer County, Georgia

Lat            34.644501

Long        -84.389847

Date of Visit: June 15, 2014

Capt Nathan Tabor

Oct 12 1820

June 14 1905

Co K  11 Regt Ga Volunteer Cavalry

CSA

Col

Robert L Smith

Ralston’s Bn

Ga Mil

CSA

Julius A Hudson

Born Jan 28 1836

Died May 15 1864

Co H  65^th Regiment Georgia Infantry

Wounded and Died in Battle of Resaca, Georgia.

Buried Near the Battle Site in Grave Known But To God

He was wounded and left on the field of battle. - Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at 3-Fold June 22, 2014 (http://www.fold3.com)

Mt Vernon Baptist Church

Location:

Clear Creek Road

Gilmer County, Georgia

Lat            34.625172

Long        -84.466339

Date of Visit: June 15, 2014

Alfred W Shepard

Co H  65 Regt Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

1838   1918

Fredrick Van Buren Teem

Pvt  Co D 23 Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Feb 14 1842   Oct 1 1929

Talona First Baptist Church

Location:

Talona road

Gilmer County, Georgia

Lat            34.590191

Long       -84.511475

Date of Visit: June 15, 2014

Pvt

John Robert Ray

Co H

1 Ga Inf

CSA

1846

1939

Oak Hill UMC

Location:

Georgia Highway 52

Ellijay, Gilmer County, Georgia

Lat            34.654095

Long       -84.438080

Date of Visit: June 15, 2014

2d Lt

Benjamin Ellington

Co H

1 Ga

State Trp

CSA

March 3 1842

March 10 1924

Flat Creek Baptist Church

Location:

Georgia Highway 382

Gilmer County, Georgia

Lat            34.641882

Long       -84.562584

Date of Visit: June 15, 2014

Pvt

Abner M Vick

Avery’s Co

4 Ga Cav

CSA

May 27 1840

Jan 7 1923